Design optimization of N-shaped roof trusses using reactive taboo search

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 221-235

  Hamza, Karim ^a   Mahmoud, Haitham ^a   Saitou, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Heuristic global optimization; Reactive taboo search; Truss optimization

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROOFS; TOPOLOGY;

HEURISTIC GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; OBJECTIVE FUNCTION (OF); REACTIVE TABOO SEARCH; TRUSS OPTIMIZATION;

TRUSSES;

EID: 15944383748     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1568-4946(03)00036-X     Document Type: Article

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